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ALTON - Foreigner might like it “Cold as Ice,” but the Marquette Catholic High School (MCHS) Choir is on a winning streak as hot as the sun. The choir will be opening for the band Foreigner when they take the stage at the Hollywood Casino on July 19. “What I’m thankful for with the school is that they get it,” Brett Klaus, MCHS music and theater director, said of the high school. “A lot of these small schools, we’ve been so athletically driven for almost 100 years. They are now seeing what happens when you invest in a music or arts program, which is opportunities they would have never thought possible.” For decades, Marquette’s choir program was just a student club. Choir became a class not long after Klaus joined the staff, which meant he had almost a full hour every day to work with his students. He says their talent has grown “exponentially.” Klaus enjoys exploring different styles of music with the singers.

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Foo Fighters are confirmed to play a surprise set at Glastonbury. Dave Grohl and company had been heavily rumored as the true identity of The Churnups, a mystery band scheduled…

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Here's a headline from the print edition of today's LA Times: Why Silicon Valley's elite adore RFK Jr. Palo Alto, though long a bastion of privilege, loves the illusion of a scrappy underdog Scrappy underdogs? Hmmm. When you get to the text of the story it turns out there's something else at play in their ...continue reading "Why do so many tech bros support RFK Jr.?"

ALTON - The Hayner Public Library District and Vintage Voices are sponsoring a gravestone dedication for Professor Charles Newton and his wife Sara Woodson Newton Cohron. Newton was the first Black graduate of Alton High School, and Cohron helped found the Colored Orphans Home in St. Louis. This week marks the 150th anniversary of Newton’s graduation in 1873. The couple and their accomplishments will be celebrated at 10 a.m. this Saturday, June 24, at Alton Cemetery. “My joy with Vintage Voices is seeing how the people — that maybe have been forgotten — dedicated themselves to Alton and this area while they were alive,” Lacy McDonald, Hayner Genealogy and Local History Library Manager, said. “They might have been well-known in their lifetime, but we don’t tend to remember just the regular people that have lived in the area that we live in.” McDonald began researching Newton and Cohron a few years ago in preparation for Vintage

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A St. Louis County man faces felony charges after he reportedly shot at his family members earlier this month.

Kansas City, unlike most major U.S. cities, does not control its own police department.

CARROLLTON - Several more individuals have been charged with drug-related offenses in Greene County over the past couple of weeks, according to recent court filings from the Greene County Sheriff’s Office. Benjamin A. Bricker, 38, of Beardstown, was issued seven total charges: fleeing/attempting to elude a peace officer, resisting a peace officer, obstructing justice, possession of more than five grams of methamphetamine, possession of a hypodermic needle, possession of drug paraphernalia, and driving on a revoked license. He was arrested on June 20 by the Calhoun County Sheriff’s Department and remains in custody. Charles D. Ball, 26, of Cottage Hills, was charged with two counts of unlawful possession of a weapon by a felon, as well as possession of more than five grams of methamphetamine, possession of a controlled substance, and possession of drug paraphernalia. He was arrested by the Calhoun County Sheriff’s Office on June 16 and remains in custody. Donald

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Members of the oversight board have long complained that they've faced "significant" obstruction. And now, city officials say, a lack of training may delay the jail oversight board investigating complaints for another four months.

The lawyers who ridiculously did not check the citations ChatGPT gave them, and when called on it, doubled down with having ChatGPT make up the matching opinions, have now been sanctioned: they have to pay $5k. That may seem light, but with all of the details, it kinda makes sense. So, yes, by now you’ve […]

I'm not going to say that the Supreme Court has been Joe Biden's biggest friend lately, but they've been surprisingly sympathetic toward him in several recent medium-button cases. They voted in favor of him yesterday in the Navajo water case, a few days ago in the Alabama redistricting case, and last month in the Section ...continue reading "Supreme Court rules yet again in Biden’s favor"

Mötley Crüe has shared a mysterious teaser hinting at a tiny club show in London. In a Facebook post, the "Dr. Feelgood" rockers have shared a video teasing a show…

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Police found Levi Henning dead before 8:30 a.m. Thursday in the 5600 block of Bartmer Avenue. He had been shot in the head and torso.

The St. Louis Cardinals clash with the Chicago Cubs overseas this weekend for the return of the MLB London Series.

The company that services student loans around the country has been working hard to make its employees feel appreciated.

FENTON — The chocolate in your chocolate milk may well come from a relatively unknown St. Louis-area company, where the employees are as contented as the cows.

Torkwase Dyson’s artwork engages urgent issues regarding architecture, infrastructure and the social and political impacts of the climate crisis, bringing them into conversation with historical and contemporary reflections on the

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On view at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum until July 24, “Killing The Buddha”: Reconstructing Zen is the 2023 Arthur Greenberg Undergraduate Curatorial Fellowship exhibition, located in the Teaching

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On view at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum until July 24, The Air That Inhabits features artworks by the current MFA in Visual Arts candidates of the Sam Fox

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